Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Vollmer Peak stands 581 m to the north-northeast, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Pardee Home Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Pardee Home Museum: 0.1 mi
- The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment: 0.2 mi
- African American Museum and Library at Oakland: 0.2 mi
- Sneaker Museum: 0.2 mi
- Black Panther Party Museum: 0.3 mi
- Bay Area Map: 0.1 mi
- (untitled): 0.2 mi
- Your Memory Column: 0.2 mi
- There!: 0.2 mi
- Oakland All Nations Mural: 0.2 mi
- Preservation Park: 0.1 mi
- Jefferson Square Playground: 0.2 mi
- Frank H. Ogawa Plaza: 0.3 mi
- Marston Campbell Park: 0.4 mi
- Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Judge Donald P. McCullum: 0.2 mi
- Oak Center Historic District: 0.3 mi
- Frank H. Ogawa: 0.3 mi
- Remember Them: Champions For Humanity Monument: 0.5 mi
- Oakland Chinatown Hall of Pioneers: 0.5 mi
- Thornton House: 0.2 mi
- Friday Nights @ OMCA with Off the Grid: 0.8 mi
- Gondola Servizio: 0.9 mi
- Old West Junction: 0.9 mi
- Play Island: 0.9 mi
- Chinese Garden: 0.6 mi
- Afrikatown Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Kaiser Rooftop Garden: 0.8 mi
- Oakland Museum of California Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Firescape Garden: 1.0 mi
- Cinderella's Party Area: 1.0 mi
- Japanese Party Area: 1.0 mi
- Circus Party Area: 1.0 mi
- Neptune: 2.4 mi
- Croll's Garden: 2.4 mi
- Pill Hill: 1.4 mi
- High Street Center: 3.9 mi
- Shellmound: 4.0 mi
- Observatory Hill: 5.0 mi
- Tightwad Hill: 5.0 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 2.6 mi
- Marjorie Saunders Park: 4.4 mi
- Castle Canyon: 4.6 mi
- Beaconsfield Canyon: 4.6 mi
- Grinnell Natural Area: 4.7 mi
- Encinal beach: 2.5 mi
- Toll Plaza Beach: 2.7 mi
- Radio Beach: 2.8 mi
- Lake Temescal Beach: 4.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 5.3 mi
- El Polín Spring: 9.7 mi
- El Polín Spring: 9.8 mi
- El Polín Spring: 9.8 mi
- Old Spring: 14.3 mi
- Sulfur Spring: 16.6 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 9.5 mi
- Huntington Falls: 11.0 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 11.2 mi
- Abrigo Falls: 11.9 mi
- Kent Falls: 17.4 mi
- Lynn: 2.4 mi
- Winehaven: 12.8 mi
- Russell City: 13.0 mi
- Stokes Landing: 16.1 mi
- Eckley: 17.8 mi
- Chab: 9.5 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 9.6 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 10.9 mi
- The Devil's Shelf: 12.3 mi
- Aramai Point: 18.3 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 4.7 mi
- Quarters A: 4.7 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 13.8 mi
- Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 18.9 mi
- Rest Stop: 21.5 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 14.3 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Lafayette Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vollmer Peak | NNE 29° | 581 m | 6.3 mi |
| Chaparral Peak | NNE 30° | 540 m | 5.9 mi |
| Round Top | NE 55° | 531 m | 5.6 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | NNE 24° | 531 m | 5.9 mi |
| Barberry Peak | NE 38° | 513 m | 5.7 mi |
| Volcanic Peak | NE 48° | 498 m | 5.7 mi |
| Eureka Peak | NE 34° | 495 m | 6.3 mi |
| Redwood Peak | E 80° | 493 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:47 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:56 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 55 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 64 | 58 | 52 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oakland Museum, under a mile away.
- Black-crowned Night Heron10,587 obs
- Snowy Egret2,750 obs
- Mallard1,211 obs
- American White Pelican1,090 obs
- American Coot938 obs
- Canada Goose908 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant851 obs
- Rock Pigeon786 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/25172961
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